He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.

The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.

Theatrical work means too much work or none.

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.

It was a surprise, and a delight, to see children devour books. Without ever knowing it, they were receiving an education.

We do not see the world as it is. We see the word as we are.

A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert.

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

Love lasts when the relationship comes first

Theory states that Allahs law is cruel and unfair, but Allah himself has said that his law is indeed fair.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.

Where there is no purity, there is no Unity. Without Unity you cannot attain Divinity. Then your life is just a waste. First purity, next Unity, then you realize your Divinity.

There's no point in being scared of just trying.